Eksodusi
2:1 Kwasuka indoda yendlu kaLevi, yathatha indodakazi
kaLevi.
2:2 Owesifazane wakhulelwa, wazala indodana
wayengumntwana omuhle, wamthukusa izinyanga ezintathu.
2:3 Futhi lapho wayengasakwazi ukumfihla, wamthathela umkhumbi
Ngemihlaba, wayinameka ngebitume* nangekolitayi, wamfaka umntwana
kuwo; wayibeka emhlangeni ngasosebeni lomfula.
2:4 Udadewabo wema kude ukuze abone okuzakwenziwa kuye.
2:5 Indodakazi kaFaro yehla ukuyogeza emfuleni; futhi
amantombazana akhe ahamba eceleni komfula; nalapho ebona umkhumbi
phakathi kwamafulege, wathuma incekukazi yakhe ukuba iyilande.
2:6 Futhi lapho eyivula, wabona umntwana, futhi bheka, umntwana
wakhala. Wamhawukela, wathi: "Lo ungomunye wabazalwane."
Abantwana bamaHebheru.
" 2:7 Khona-ke udadewabo wathi endodakazini kaFaro, "Ngihambe ngiyokubiza
umbelethisi wamaHeberukazi, ukuze akuncelisele umntwana na?
2:8 Indodakazi kaFaro yathi kuye: "Hamba." Yahamba incekukazi yambiza
umama wengane.
9 Indodakazi kaFaro yathi kuye: "Thatha lo mntwana, ummunyise."
kimi, futhi ngizokunika inkokhelo yakho. Owesifazana wamthatha umntwana.
wayincelisa.
2:10 Wakhula umntwana, wamyisa endodakazini kaFaro, futhi yena
waba yindodana yakhe. Waqamba igama lakhe uMose, wathi: "Ngoba mina."
wamkhipha emanzini.
2:11 Kwathi ngalezo zinsuku, uMose esekhulile, wahamba
waphuma kubafowabo, wabheka imithwalo yabo; wabona
UmGibhithe watshaya umHebheru, omunye wabafowabo.
2:12 Futhi wabheka ngapha nangapha, futhi lapho ebona ukuthi akukho
indoda, wambulala owaseGibithe, wamthukusa esihlabathini.
2:13 Futhi lapho ephuma ngosuku lwesibili, bheka, amadoda amabili amaHebheru
baphikisana; wathi kowonileyo: Ngani
Uyamshaya umakhelwane wakho na?
2:14 Wathi, "Ubani okumise induna nomahluleli phezu kwethu? uhlose wena
ukungibulala mina, njengalokho ubulele owaseGibithe? UMose wayesesaba, wathi:
Impela le nto iyaziwa.
2:15 UFaro eseyizwile le nto, wafuna ukumbulala uMose. Kodwa uMose
wabaleka ebusweni bukaFaro, wahlala ezweni lakwaMidiyani;
wahlala phansi ngasemthonjeni.
2:16 Manje umpristi wakwaMidiyani wayenamadodakazi ayisikhombisa;
amanzi, bagcwalisa imikhumbi ukuphuzisa umhlambi kayise.
2:17 Kwafika abelusi, bawaxosha;
wabasiza, waphuzisa umhlambi wabo.
2:18 Futhi lapho befika kuRehuweli uyise, wathi, "Kunjani nina?
ufike ngokushesha kangaka namuhla?
2:19 Bathi: "UmGibhithe wasophula esandleni sombuso."
nabelusi, wasikhelela amanzi, waphuzisa umhlambi.
2:20 Wathi emadodakazini akhe, Futhi uphi? kungani nina
wayishiya indoda? mbize, ukuze adle isinkwa.
2:21 UMose wavuma ukuhlala nalo muntu, wamnika uMose uSipora
indodakazi yakhe.
2:22 Wamzalela indodana, waqamba igama layo ngokuthi uGereshomu, ngoba wathi, "Ngi."
ngibe ngumfokazi ezweni elingalazi.
2:23 Kwathi ngokuhamba kwesikhathi, inkosi yaseGibhithe wafa
abantwana bakwa-Israyeli babubula ngenxa yobugqila, bakhala,
ukukhala kwabo kwenyukela kuNkulunkulu ngenxa yobugqila.
2:24 Futhi uNkulunkulu wezwa ukububula kwabo, futhi uNkulunkulu wakhumbula isivumelwano sakhe
U-Abrahama, no-Isaka, kanye noJakobe.
2:25 Futhi uNkulunkulu wababheka abantwana bakwa-Israyeli, futhi uNkulunkulu wababheka
bona.